austraLasia #2997
Happy Feast Day of St Francis of Sales!
HAGATNA:24 January 2012 -- Given that Fr Gerard (Gigi) Ravasco has written from Guam ("Happy feastday on this glorious day of St Francis of Sales. I'm dabbling again with media files..."), let his greeting be for all of us, and given that this is the communicators' feastday as well, let's follow up what Gigi is talking about - it will be of interest!
A website known as Radix.com has done what inevitably someone had to do - given the narrative ploy of the 'dreams' which Don Bosco used so effectively amongst his boys, it just needed someone to take contemporary media nad revitalise them. This is what Barry Douglas has done. You can be your own judge of the effectiveness of his presentation, but regardless of what you think of it, the idea can but spur on the enterprising to do similarly....
Which is where Fr Ravasco fits in. A long-time devotee of the digital and its value for effective evangelisation and education, he is a member of the Salesian community in Guam (Fr Duenas Memorial School) and also runs an online media course (University of the Philippines, Open University).
Last year he decided to work out how to make an app for android devices, so after ploughing through a few tutorials, he eventually came up with a 'Salesianity.apk'. I happen to have a copy - if you'd be interested, just ask. Mind you he may have updated it since, but I'm sure, reading this, he'll be in touch about that!
Now Fr Ravasco has put his hand to another little enterprise, "since I'm teaching a course this semester (print and radio materials for development communications) which has to include a bit on online writing and podcasts. I got hold of the radix.com website where they have this very interesting DVD on the Dreams of Don Bosco part 1. But instead of getting this, I bought the older audio file they developed on the Dreams of Don Bosco (there are 7 dreams). And I'm trying to divide it into episodes (one a day) just in time for the feast of Don Bosco. So it's like a dream a day to keep us awake. Would be a good educational tool to develop later".
Once he has worked out how best to embed audio files, our enterprising confrere will (almost certainly by the end of today) have the ability to fulfil his dream re the 'bigger' dreams, and you will have one more resource during the lead-up to the Feast on 31st. Enjoy. The link to 'Journeying' is from the image at the top.
Happy Feast Day of St Francis of Sales!
A website known as Radix.com has done what inevitably someone had to do - given the narrative ploy of the 'dreams' which Don Bosco used so effectively amongst his boys, it just needed someone to take contemporary media nad revitalise them. This is what Barry Douglas has done. You can be your own judge of the effectiveness of his presentation, but regardless of what you think of it, the idea can but spur on the enterprising to do similarly....
Which is where Fr Ravasco fits in. A long-time devotee of the digital and its value for effective evangelisation and education, he is a member of the Salesian community in Guam (Fr Duenas Memorial School) and also runs an online media course (University of the Philippines, Open University).
Last year he decided to work out how to make an app for android devices, so after ploughing through a few tutorials, he eventually came up with a 'Salesianity.apk'. I happen to have a copy - if you'd be interested, just ask. Mind you he may have updated it since, but I'm sure, reading this, he'll be in touch about that!
Now Fr Ravasco has put his hand to another little enterprise, "since I'm teaching a course this semester (print and radio materials for development communications) which has to include a bit on online writing and podcasts. I got hold of the radix.com website where they have this very interesting DVD on the Dreams of Don Bosco part 1. But instead of getting this, I bought the older audio file they developed on the Dreams of Don Bosco (there are 7 dreams). And I'm trying to divide it into episodes (one a day) just in time for the feast of Don Bosco. So it's like a dream a day to keep us awake. Would be a good educational tool to develop later".
Once he has worked out how best to embed audio files, our enterprising confrere will (almost certainly by the end of today) have the ability to fulfil his dream re the 'bigger' dreams, and you will have one more resource during the lead-up to the Feast on 31st. Enjoy. The link to 'Journeying' is from the image at the top.
